Senior Technical Recruiter – Contract
Company: Blaze Talent
Location: Remote (US-based)
Engagement Type: Contract (1099)
Start Date: ASAP
Compensation: $50–90/hr
About the Role
Blaze Talent is hiring a seasoned Contract Technical Recruiter to lead full-cycle engineering hiring for a confidential, high-growth client in the AI Infrastructure space . This is an RPO engagement where you’ll be deeply embedded with their technical leadership team, helping scale engineering functions that power next-generation AI systems.
You’ll play a critical role in building out teams across distributed systems, platform engineering, hardware-accelerated compute, and AI-focused infrastructure—working directly with hiring managers to fill highly specialized technical roles.
What You’ll Do
- Partner with engineering leadership: work closely with engineering managers, Directors, and VPs to shape hiring strategy, understand technical requirements, and define ideal candidate profiles.
- Attend intake meetings, calibrate on candidate quality, and advise on market realities for niche AI/infra talent.
- Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, including Backend Engineers, Systems/Infrastructure Engineers, Distributed Systems Engineers, SRE/DevOps talent, GPU/accelerated computing specialists , and other high-impact technical positions.
- Manage sourcing, candidate outreach, screening, interview alignment, and offer support end-to-end.
- Build pipelines through targeted sourcing across LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, AI/infra communities, meetups, and technical networks.
- Run sophisticated boolean searches and leverage pattern-matching to uncover hard-to-find talent.
- Own interview scheduling, feedback loops, candidate communication, and pipeline health reporting.
- Provide consistent updates to internal stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.
- Maintain clean data hygiene across ATS tools and recruiting systems.
- Identify bottlenecks or process improvements that elevate candidate experience and hiring velocity.
- Bring a consultative approach that supports both the client and Blaze Talent’s high-touch delivery standards.
About You
- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally split across agency and in-house environments.
- Demonstrated success hiring software engineers, systems engineers, SREs, distributed systems specialists, ML/AI infrastructure talent , or similarly technical roles.
- Experience supporting high-growth or scaling engineering teams , especially within deep tech, cloud, AI, or infrastructure-heavy companies.
- Strong sourcing capabilities with advanced boolean skills and fluency using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, GitHub search, and ATS platforms (Ashby preferred) .
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, high-complexity environment with multiple technical stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, organization, and relationship-building skills with both candidates and hiring teams.
- Fully remote-ready with your own laptop and high-speed internet connection .
Employment Details
- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
- Job function: Information Technology
- Industries: Staffing and Recruiting, Technology, Information and Media